A war in which ignorant hippies in the USA as well as the usual ignorant foreigners and communist supporters around the world helped lower the morale of the brave soldiers who were fighting in Vietnam against communists and called them baby killers among other things when the soldiers who were over there had seen and gone through more than any one of those cowards would ever see in their pathetic lives. And then after the communist supporters got their way the North Vietnamese as well as Pol Pot and the Cambodian communists went on to kill 3 million people in both countries (including many women and children that the cowards dispised the American soldiers for supposedly killing earlier in the war) the rest of which were put into slave labor camps in Cambodia. Of course the communist supporters ignored the genocide after the war because of their cowardice and ignorance.

Most hippies and communist compare the Vietnam War with the War on Terrorism. It looks like they are still just as ignorant now as they were 30 years ago.

Yet another example of France fucking up and the US riding in to bail their sorry asses out. Unfortunately for them, it didn't work out as well as the World Wars and the US got a bloody nose. Statistically the war went relatively well for America, but gross political mismanagement and the mass media's attempts to force public opinion against the war crippled the military's efforts and America ultimately had to pull out. Basically, the Vietnam War was lost in America, not in Vietnam.

The USA could have easily won the Vietnam War by playing fast and hard, but worthless politicians kept them on such a tight leash they could only hope to tickle North Vietnam and only after being punched in the face. Or we could have returned de Gaulle's favor and told the damn frogs to fuck off in the beginning and spared ourselves the whole experience.

A drinking game based on the war of the same name. Similar to beer pong.

Two teams, America and Vietnam, both get 10 cups. America arranges their cups in a triangle (as in beer pong), with the usual amount of beer in them. Vietnam places their cups anywhere they like on their side of the table, but the cups are full.

If America makes a shot, someone on team Vietnam has to drink the whole cup and removes it. If Vietnam makes a shot, someone on team America has to drink the cup and refill it.

The game ends when all cups on the Vietnam side are gone, or when America gives up.

Hey, wanna play beer pong?" "Nah, I got a better game, it's called the Vietnam War."

Why Did the USA invade Vietnam?
After the second world war, The USA and The USSR emerged as the world's two great superpowers. However, the two nation's political systems conflicted and a war of words and threat broke out. This was known as the cold war. America became increasingly fearful of the Soviet Union's communist system spreading across the world, one country at a time. This theory was known as the 'domino theory'. When China went communist in 1949, America felt that the threat of communism was very real. As a result, they entered Korea and were partially successful; The ROK (South Korea) remains a capitalist state today. They then turned their attentions too Vietnam, where a communist group known as the Viet Minh had emerged, founded by Ho Chi Minh. France were already present in Vietnam as it had been a colony of their's prior to WW2. However, even after a vast amount of support given by the USA, the French were eventually driven out by the Viet Minh. America's response to this was to help Ngo Dinh Diem to power in south Vietnam. Diem was a ruthless dictator who was cruel to the peasant population of Vietnam, but he was anti-communist, and so the USA helped him. Before long, a new communist militia group was set up called the Viet Cong, again founded by Ho Chi Minh. America began to send military 'advisers' to combat the Viet Cong. This continued for a few year until eventually, in 1965, The USA was fully at war with communist forces in Vietnam.

A war that the State Department lost, not the U.S. military. Dumbass liberal college students and hippies trying to turn our country into a communist regime at the same time didn't help, either.

After I got back from the Vietnam War, some hippie spit on my uniform and called me a baby-killing war criminal, so I broke his jaw, just to remind him that it's because of "baby-killers" like me that he has the freedom to express his thoughts, no matter how wrong or asinine those thoughts are.

The only war the United States has ever lost. After WW2 and the rise of the USSR, North Vietnam became a communist region. The US was afraid that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other small countries would also become communist. At first they sent advisors to the South's army but they needed extra support so US troops were sent. It was a war of attrition, victories were won not by total area gained but by body count. It was a very nasty war, with a lot of hatred by the American public. Over 50,000 american soldiers died, as opposed to the 2 million North Vietnamese killed. A lot of American pilots were shot down and captured as POWs and sent to camps, such as the famous "Hanoi Hilton" that became a symbol of the barbaric Vietcong. Contrary to popular belief, the US never lost a battle in Vietnam. Nixon decided to pull out due to the negative opinion of the war and to secure his reelection calling it "Peace with honor". The State Dept lost the war folks, not the military.